What does an artwork mean to you ?

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I have gone through many phases when it comes to both drawing and photography, often I have sat down to draw just basicly to draw, other times I have sat down with a clear purpose and goal in mind.

It does not take a genius to figure out what is more rewarding, I am not going to say that drawing just for the sake of drawing did not have a benefit but there was cases that was way more rewarding.

When I started out photographing, I often went out to take a picture or 2, just to do just that, and I always came back with results that I felt a bit disconnected from.

Take for instance this image <da:thumb id="356262373"/>

It is a shot of opportunity, I was nearby and had the camera with me, the sky is kinda cool and the water is quite still with some reflections in it, and it is edited rather artisticly.
I think the final image is cool and I do like it, but I do not feel that connected to the image, it is a experience I remember vaguely.

Compared to this <da:thumb id="337687440"/>

I remember running as fast as I could to a location down by the sea where I was away from the worst of the light pollution, adrenaline was rushing at an all time high and I could not get there fast enough.
This was also after I had already been out (with a couple of short breaks) for 16 hours and was dead tired, that feeling dissapeared in less than a second when I saw what was going on in the sky.
When I turned the camera and clicked the shutter the very clear though I had was "This is home!", which became the title of the image.




Another example <da:thumb id="339546858"/>

With expectations of great aurora activity I walked up a local mountain to get some nice photage, the trip was pretty much horrible, the wind was blowing incredibly hard and midways it was so cloudy not a single star was visible, The moon went down at the wind started to blow away my footprints, so I had to turn back.
I could see some of the clouds getting a well known green tint to them so I knew there was a lot of aurora activity, but there was no possibility to capture it. 
I felt rather alone walking on the mountain, and it would have been nice to have shared the experience with someone else even though it was a sucky one, and the title of the image became "Walk with me".
I would say I have an equally strong connection to this image as the previous one, just a different kind but both means a lot to me.


This is what some of my works means to me, and that meaning makes me enjoy what I do so much more, and if there is something I have to do I try to find something about it that adds value to it, it might be a simple thing as to get more practice in an area or it might be something that offers me a chance to test something I have never done before.

I would rather want to do than have to do.

What your work means to you is something you know.
I think most will agree with me that our own personal favourites is just that for a reason. :)

Have a superb day. :boogie:

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derJOgelle's avatar
I agree with you completely but don't forget in order to know what you want to capture exactly, you need to walk around and "spontaneously" capture what you like so basically both is the same/requires each other!^^
I normally have only a VERY vaque idea and what I spontaneously get is mostly way better.
BUT Between original idea and capturing lies looking & developing a (new, similar) idea.
LG